Visionary City Leader Show #1: Geordin Hill-Lewis

<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, the Mayor of Cape Town, is our first guest on the Visionary City Leader Show. We discuss what is means to be a visionary city leader, his 1st 100 days in office, how he’ll define success over his 5 year term, the importance of partnerships in solving complex problems, future-proofing cape town, how the role of the mayor has changed in recent times, and much more.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This episode is brought to you in partnership with <strong>GPA GROUP</strong></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Listen or watch to understand:</strong></span></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Major highlights from his 1st 100 days in office and what het did not get too.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Future thinking.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How he managed the complexity of the transition from the national sphere of government to the municipal.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How important partnerships are in ending load shedding, getting rail to work and more.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The key characteristics of a visionary city leader.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How he will define success over the course of 5 years.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How the role of an executive mayor has changed especially since covid, and how he prioritises what is done first.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The City’s resilience and future planing directorate and what it is trying to achieve.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What spatial transformation means to him as an individual, as a leader and what it implies to the city.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Tensions and compromises he anticipates (on spatial transforma